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Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the party’s subsequent criticism of coalition policy? Our Q & A attempts to answer this question... Bakoyannis’s proposal, DIMAR leader Fotis Kouvelis made it clear he could not see a way back... be mended unless there is a change in government policy. Even Bakoyannis’s suggestion that a new
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Preparations for local elections expose SYRIZA weakness
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA stole a march on its political opponents recently by naming its candidates for May’s local... Democracy in May’s local and European Parliament polls, announced its list of 13 candidates for regional... from some within SYRIZA. The party’s leading left-wing faction, Left Platform, objected to Voudouris
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Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe coming months. Monday’s Eurogroup in Brussels concluded with European Economic and Monetary... validated data on April 23. Instead, the focus of the troika’s latest visit will fall largely....” The troika has fully adopted the OECD’s recommendations and made it clear to the Greek government
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Elections results present fresh challenges for SYRIZA and New Democracy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe final results from Sunday’s European Parliament elections confirmed that SYRIZA gained... but pointed to the 8 percent that PASOK’s Elia alliance gained as evidence that the coalition retains a clear mandate to continue governing. SYRIZA’s qualified victory and New Democracy’s close shave leaves
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Are things looking up for Greece's privatisation programme?
EconomyIn its latest weekly credit outlook published on Monday, Moody’s said that the “Greek privatization... and underperformance. Moody’s statement refers to an agreement on the privatization of assets worth 1.3 billion so far... stake in OLP. The latter’s market value is higher than that of OLTH, currently at 458 million euros
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Karatzaferis offers to boost New Democracy's right wing with LAOS alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe future holds for PASOK and Greece’s centre-left, New Democracy and the right-wing... clashed with the party’s then leader Kostas Karamanlis. Karatzaferis then formed LAOS, which... nationalist, anti-immigration stance. As a result of LAOS’s policies, Karamanlis refused to cooperate
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Samaras tax cut pledges aimed at MPs rather than voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsit is usually to win over voters before elections. However, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s pledge... after Samaras’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) fell on the fact that after five... of the pledges means it is unlikely that taxpayers will be moved by the prime minister’s words. In fact, his
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Tsipras starts to flesh out SYRIZA's economic policy but questions remain
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn a much-anticipated speech, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras unveiled the main pillars of his party’s... it would govern. The attention afforded to Tsipras’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair.... An opinion poll published ahead of Tsipras’s appearance in Thessaloniki indicated that SYRIZA continues
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Samaras plots early bailout exit, plays down debt relief as Merkel remains tight-lipped
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter Tuesday’s meeting that Greece’s strong fiscal performance, the expected return of growth in the second half of this year, the gradual reduction in unemployment and the country’s return to bond... pledged to maintain a primary surplus. Samaras’s plan essentially means that Greece would rid itself
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‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
Agora, in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city, to pay the first of six instalments of Greece’s new property tax... percent of people own their own home. The levy is so despised that it’s commonly described... for work for almost two years, the man’s death exposed some strongly held national stereotypes about
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